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DNC, DON’T TREAD ON ME!

By Pamela Hamilton • Apr 25th, 2008 • Category: Top Story

Mark Halperin of Time Magazines “The Page” had a story covering a new joint fundraising project that would allow people to give money to Obama and the DNC simultaneously. The agreement hasn’t been filed yet, but will be shortly. According to the New York times, the deal apparently was extended to the Clinton camp as well and they have not reached agreement yet.
Mark […]



99 Problems? Make it 100

By Pamela Hamilton • Apr 18th, 2008 • Category: Top Story

Barack Obama tried to “Wipe the Dirt Off His Shoulder” after a poor performance in the debate two nights ago.

What most of us “typical white people” don’t know is that Obama’s gesture is part of the Hip Hop Gangsta culture, and it stems from a song by artist Jay-Z.Jay-Z has endorsed Obama publicly […]



Who is this guy?

By Pamela Hamilton • Apr 15th, 2008 • Category: Top Story

“And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”    
~ Barack Obama

“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the […]



Six-Shooter in a Duck Blind

By Pamela Hamilton • Apr 13th, 2008 • Category: Election 2008

Well, it’s official. Barack Obama really is out of touch with small-town America.
Today he launched into a tirade, scolding Hillary for questioning Obama’s choice of words during the now famous Bittergate fundraiser at a United Steelworker’s rally in Steelton, PA.
Obama expressed his disappointment with Hillary in this way:
“She’s running around talking about how this is an insult […]



Six-Shooter in a Duck Blind2

By Pamela Hamilton • Apr 13th, 2008 • Category: Election 2008

Well, it’s official. Barack Obama really is out of touch with small-town America.
Today he launched into a tirade about Hillary questioning Obama’s choice of words during the now famous Bittergate fundraiser at a United Steelworker’s rally in Steelton, PA.
Obama expressed his disappointment with Hillary in this way:
“She’s running around talking about how this is an insult […]



Obama’s Judgment of Small Town America a Bitter Pill

By Pamela Hamilton • Apr 12th, 2008 • Category: Election 2008

Barack Obama was at one of three $2300 ticket fundraiser’s held on April 6th. This one was located on “Billionaire Row” in Pacific Heights, a very wealthy suburb of San Francisco. During the night, Obama made what I’m sure he thought was a thoughtful observation about the working class folks of Pennsylvania:
“Our challenge is to get people persuaded that we […]



Mark Penn Resigns As Clinton Campaign Strategist

By Pamela Hamilton • Apr 6th, 2008 • Category: Election 2008

Clinton Chief Campaign Strategist Mark Penn stepped down today amid controversy surrounding a recent meeting with representatives from the Colombian government on behalf of Penn’s lobbying company Burson-Marsteller, who has been hired to promote the controversial Colombian Free Trade Agreement.
“After the events of the last few days, Mark Penn has asked to give up his role as […]



Kerry on Universal Healthcare - No We Can’t!

By Pamela Hamilton • Apr 2nd, 2008 • Category: Election 2008, Politwix Blogs

A comment on ABC’s “Last Week” made by top Barack Obama supporter Senator John Kerry was reduced to the soundbite “Senator Kerry claims that Senator Clinton’s universal healthcare plan is a ”non-starter”.
We think that his actual comment warrants further examination:
“Let me just tell you that Hillary Clinton’s plan in the United States Senate is a nonstarter, because it starts […]



We Need Hillary!

By Pamela Hamilton • Mar 30th, 2008 • Category: Politwix Blogs

At a time when a few partisans are banging the drum for my candidate to get out of the race it is apparent that this country needs her more than ever. Special interests are getting their hooks into so many, resentful power-hungry politicians are trying to steal the election and big media is trying to prop […]



Goddamn Michigan and Florida!

By Pamela Hamilton • Mar 29th, 2008 • Category: Politwix Blogs

The Democratic Party is sinking in quicksand. The more time that goes by without consensus on the allocation of Florida’s primary votes, the more ridiculous the party looks. There is no justification for not allocating votes the way they would have been had the primary not been moved up by the Florida’s Republican Legislature. Both candidate’s names were on the ballot, neither candidate […]